[OpenSpending] spendingdata.org: Developing a standard for transaction-level spending data

Tue Jul 10 10:45:05 UTC 2012

Hi Ole,

as for obligations between countries, I don't know of anyone outside
the big players who does data-driven tracking of that, but I really
liked the visualization the NYT did a while back:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/an-overview-of-the-euro-crisis.html

As for financial transfers, I think IATI is by far the most
interesting data you can find, even though it only covers development
as a mechanism. We wrote up a note about it's use in OpenSpending
here: http://openspending.org/resources/iati/index.html and I'd also
recommend you have a look at AidInfo Labs: http://www.aidinfolabs.org/

Cheers,

 - Friedrich

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:35 PM,
<Ole.Wintermann at bertelsmann-stiftung.de> wrote:
> It looks great and is an opportunity for me to ask if there exist any platforms who describe and show the financial transfers and obligations between different countries?
>
> We are looking for such models of visualization for one of our projects.
>
> Best
> Ole
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> Betreff: Re: [OpenSpending] spendingdata.org: Developing a standard for transaction-level spending data
>
> This is great - we could solicit opinions on the Datablog too, if that
> would help.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Brough [mailto:mark.brough at publishwhatyoufund.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:11 AM
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> transaction-level spending data
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> This is really exciting - looking forward to contributing however I can.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Friedrich
> Lindenberg
> Sent: 09 July 2012 22:01
> To: openspending
> Subject: [OpenSpending] spendingdata.org: Developing a standard for
> transaction-level spending data
>
> Hi all,
>
> we've been considering the idea of creating a reference format for
> spending data for a while now. It's a good idea: what if many governments
> - on different levels - were to release their spending in a uniform,
> compatible format? Governments would have it easier to figure out how to
> their publish data. Techies like us could begin to build tools for
> analyzing the data that truly scale. NGOs and think tanks could easily see
> what's in the data, without having to embark on a technology project
> first. Eventually, the data could even become comparable across different
> environments, raising many interesting questions.
>
> We'd like to invite you to brainstorm with us: how would a simple,
> pragmatic standard for spending data look? Through the recent GIFT report,
> we've surveyed lots of similar initiatives [1] and collected some rough
> ideas. Building on this, we're now looking for your support in
> contributing your ideas against this straw man:
>
> http://openspending.org/resources/standard/index.html
>
> It's by far not concrete enough to actually build a validator ("rough
> consensus and running code"), but with all of your help I'm hoping that
> we'll get there quickly. If we can build support for such an idea, we can
> convince some of those countries who have already opened up their data to
> use better formats to do it; while giving concrete guidance to those who
> are only now starting to share their spending data.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>  - Friedrich
>
> [1] http://openspending.org/resources/gift/index.html
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